Safeway-size asteroid to get closer to Earth than satellites

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    Safeway-size asteroid to get closer to Earth than satellites


    Here's something to watch for in the sky on the 15th.


    An asteroid big enough to level a major metropolitan area (probably several of them, actually) will definitely not be doing any such thing this month, but it will come pretty darn close.

    First spotted by a Spanish observatory last year, small asteroid 2012 DA14 (in this case "small" means about 150 feet in diameter, or roughly the size of a supermarket) will pass within 3.5 Earth radii of the surface of our planet on February 15.

    Read more at source:
    Safeway-size asteroid to get closer to Earth than satellites | Crave - CNET

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    Safeway is a grocery chain here in the States. Oh wait, I messed up.... Brink is in the States and probably knows that.
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    Slartybart said:
    Safeway is a grocery chain here in the States. Oh wait, I messed up.... Brink is in the States and probably knows that.
    It was also a supermarket chain in the uk but renamed to Morrison.
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    * Night of the Comet flashback *
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    At least it isn't as big as a SuperWalmart.
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    or a tesco-op
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    Julian, wash your mouth out with a meteorite!
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    That's the day after valentine's day.
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    I was always told that there is no Safeway.
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    Watch the Asteroid flyby Live !

    A conference about the 150' diameter asteroid will be on Thursday at 11am(PST) 2pm(EST).
    http://www.jpl.nasa....elease_2013-043

    There are four links in the article, the last one is for a live link to watch the asteroid flyby from a telescope at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala on Feb. 15th at 6pm to 9pm(PST) 9pm to 12am(EST)
    http://www.ustream.t...annel/nasa-msfc
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